# Scrape.do review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Web scraping API with ready-made Google and AI search scrapers

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Scrape.do is a web scraping API that rotates datacenter, residential and mobile proxies, renders JavaScript and handles CAPTCHAs, charging only for successful requests. Beside it sit ready-made APIs that return parsed JSON for Google Search (with AI Overviews and a separate AI Mode endpoint), Google Maps, Shopping, News and Trends, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini, all drawing on the same monthly credits.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** PACKEND, LLC
- **Website:** https://scrape.do
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need Bing or another engine, as Google is the only search engine listed.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrape.do has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1,000 successful API credits a month (100 Google searches) with 5 concurrent requests and every feature, including residential and mobile proxies. No card needed.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1,000 successful API credits a month and 5 concurrent requests, with every feature unlocked. |
| Hobby | $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | 10 concurrent requests and email support. Enough for 25,000 Google searches at 10 credits each. |
| Pro | $99 per month for 1,250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | 50 concurrent requests and priority email support. Enough for 125,000 Google searches. |
| Business | $249 per month for 3,500,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | 100 concurrent requests, premium residential and mobile proxies, dedicated support and team management. |
| Advanced | $699 per month for 10,000,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | 200 concurrent requests, custom firewall bypass strategies, a custom SLA and a dedicated Slack support channel. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited credits and concurrency on infrastructure built around the target sites. Through sales. |

Read from https://scrape.do/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scrape.do before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): Scrape.do's pricing FAQ says annual billing costs 10 months for 12 (Hobby is $290 a year) on every plan except Enterprise, arranged through support. Source: https://scrape.do/pricing/

## Key features

- **Anti-bot bypass:** Rotates proxies from a pool Scrape.do puts at 150 million IPs, varies headers, user agents and TLS fingerprints, and handles CAPTCHAs.
- **Google Search API:** Returns 15+ parsed sections as JSON, including organic results, ads, knowledge graph, local pack, People Also Ask, top stories and AI Overviews.
- **AI Mode endpoint:** A separate endpoint returns the full answer from Google's AI Mode; other ready-made APIs collect ChatGPT and Gemini responses.
- **Ready-made scraper APIs:** Parsed JSON for Google Maps, Shopping, News, Trends, Flights, Hotels and Play Store, plus Amazon, Walmart and YouTube.
- **Rendering and geo-targeting:** JavaScript rendering, scripted browser actions, sticky sessions and geo-targeting in more than 160 countries, with unlimited bandwidth.
- **Asynchronous scraping:** Submit a list of target URLs as one job, get a job ID back at once and collect the results later, for background processing at scale.

## Good for

- Developers who want Google results as parsed JSON on a small budget
- Tracking Google AI Overviews and AI Mode answers
- Scraping protected sites with residential or mobile IPs

## Worth knowing

- A basic datacenter request costs 1 credit and a residential request with JavaScript rendering 25; a Google search costs 10.
- Requests stop when the month's credits run out unless you upgrade or buy more. Failed requests are not charged.
- Annual billing (pay for 10 months, get 12) is set up by contacting support, not at checkout.
- Refunds are rare and limited to the first three days after a purchase.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Scrape.do is a scraping API with rotating proxies and ready-made scrapers that return Google Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Maps, Shopping and more as JSON, at 10 credits a Google search. For search it's Google only, requests stop when the month's credits run out, and refunds are limited to three days.

- **Value for money: B.** Hobby is $29 a month for 250,000 credits, just under this category's middle, but at 10 credits a Google search that's 25,000 searches, about $1.16 per 1,000, at the low end of the $1 to $4 rivals here charge. Pro is $99 for 125,000 searches.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan for good with no card: 1,000 credits a month with every feature, residential and mobile proxies included. That's 100 Google searches, which go quickly.
- **Features: C.** Google Search with 15+ parsed sections including AI Overviews, an AI Mode endpoint, Maps, Shopping, News, Trends, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini, plus general scraping. For search, though, Google is the only engine in the listing.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: ready-made endpoints that return parsed JSON, and asynchronous jobs for long lists. No rating on record, and a request costs 1 to 25 credits by proxy and rendering.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with an API and asynchronous jobs. The listing names no SDKs, integrations or MCP server. No desktop or phone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scrape.do's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs

- Scrape.do's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 7 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 8.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 21 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 12 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Scrape.do you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 23 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $348 a year.

- You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- You could not: An API that other software can build on.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** SERP API, Public API

## Alternatives

- [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingbee)
- [ZenRows](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zenrows): Web scraping API for protected sites, priced by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows)
- [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraperapi)
- [Scrapingdog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingdog): Web scraping and Google SERP APIs on one shared credit plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog)
- [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-serpapi)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://scrape.do/pricing/
- https://scrape.do/
- https://scrape.do/products/ready-api/google-search-scraper/
- https://scrape.do/documentation/
- https://scrape.do/terms-of-use/
- https://scrape.do/features/asynchronous-web-scraper/

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